The meeting of the Cuttack Ravenshaw English Department alumni was held recently. This was the second meeting.
Glowing tributes were paid here to Prof Sarbeswar Dash and the former students remembered their associations with Prof Dash and his teaching style. Homage wwas also paid to the memory of late Prof BJB Mohapatra, Prof Sadananda Mishra , Prof Ramachandra Tripathy besides former students like Nagesh Rao, Pratap Mohanty and Jitamitra Mohanty.
Also, all wished quick healing of Gunanidhi Jena, who is undergoing treatment.
Prominent among other old faces were Bijay Mania, Arabinda Panigrahi, Poet Prafulla Subudhi, Ballav Balabantaray,Omar Khan, Shaym Sundar Tripathy, Suresh Rath, former IPS Chintamani Panda.
A joint endavour was made by former bureaucrat Rabi Nanda, Prof Santosh Bez, Prof Souri Mohan Udgata, Khirod Acharya and Khirod Mallick to make the programme a success.
Noted Indo- Anglican poet RP Samal and former Principal Prof Manjushree Dwivedi served as rapporteurs on this memorable occasion. The next meeting will be held in January, it was decided.